I only buy portable Li-ion batteries from manufacturers with a history of product recalls in my country or directly from major retailers that regularly recall defective products.

I also only buy portable battery models that I believe will sell or has sold many thousands of units so any widespread manufacturering defects should become apparent sooner.

Yeah, I see your point, never thought of it that way.

Just also darkly hilarious — “I only buy <PRODUCT> with a history of product recalls”.

There was a time in which we used to avoid such things…

Reminds me of the survivorship bias exposed by Abraham Wald:

https://medium.com/@christian.dobbert/the-missing-bullet-hol...

And they might pay from now on closer attention. Expensive lesson learned?

For now I don't avoid them, yet. Definitely not switching to a random cinese brand instead.